The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-10-28
A Bold and Ringing Address by
Gen. Horny M. jackson.
Tens of Thousands of People Cheer
the Confederacy's President.
The People Give Themselves Up to
Afectionate Demonstrations.
Prayers and Toars-Kissing the Old
Flags-A Enthusiastic Manifes-
tation Probably Unparalleled
In American History.

NEW YoRK, Oct ga Macon, Ga,
special TO the Herald says that last night
n great torchlight demonstration occurred
in honor Of jefferson Davis. Gen. Henry
jackson, cN-hlinistcr 10 Mexico, in his
speech 10 the veterans, said: "Conicdcr.
ate Veterans There stands upon the soil
OF Georgia the distinguished Mississippian
who, within the life Of the present genera.
ton, was the so-oalled traitor leader of Il
so-called lost cause. We, Confederate
veterans, relict OF the armies which fought
for that cause, are here TO meet him, To
move before him. in the pride and pomp
of no Roman triumph, Il is true, bending
our necks TO no Roman yoke Of subjuga
ton. by invitation Of the State Of Georgia
speaking through her duly empowered
officials, all have come. Behold majesty
truth revealing herself. State sovereignty
IL not dead. Georgia IL n sovereign still,
and calls upon her people to glory with
her today. Her glory Is in her history.
Her history il the memory Of her dead,
and this day Is consccntcd 10 her Conicd.
crate dead. They are guilty Of no treason
10 her. To whom, then, could bc ~,
truitors2 Where shall We seek their higher
sovereign Shall We find him In the fed
cml constitution Then there was q SOW
crcign snittcn TO earth 10y traitors hands
tramplcd in the dust by traitors feet, bu
| the hands ard the feet were not theirs.
"Do We hold that the men who fought
against them were traitors? Not at all
They, too, wcrc loyal To their sovereign
The constitution was hut a treaty between
high contracting sovereign parties without
one atom Of sovereignty in itself; since
viii IMMUNITY through long wears oi pain
iul agitation. WIS Il broken 10y the soy
crcign party Of the north. They enacted
into crime the mere attempt II federal
| power Ia enforce It's dccpcs within their
| dominiuns, aud because, after decades al
endurance M patient ~ u was dclu-iyc
the sovereign parties OF the south decline,
Ia accept their revolutionary will In per
mancnt place 81 the constitution, uh
compact-brcnking sovpigns OF the nortl
with numbers Overwhelming. aud mate
rial unbouBlcj, made at1'r--i,r upo
them Ia forcc them a. aorcpi H. Tia
world has been told that the people of III,
/ NuNlN HtNlt iuf WIZ W. IhNIhiAuHf hUHAl
slavery. This Is false. They did not en-
ate, insiitctc. nor do they now wish 10 ~
/ store II.
"Thc principle for which We fought, IN,
only principle Of government expressly,
enough a. meet the requirements oi AL
yancing civilization, made IT late 10y Glad
stones clpguuncc, ~ familiar Ia European
| thought, WIS American born.
Red with the blood 81 Confcdcrnt,
heroes. moist with the tears Of Conicdcrat,
widows aud orphans, eastward shall I
continue "a roll, carrying with II thI
| blessed light of the christian civilization
/ all ruund the globe, and, ~ surely ~ !
moves, Il shall bring the day oi triumph.
"ln that triumphal procession Abraham
| Lincoln shall not move ~ the righiiu
President, but Jefferson Davis, the NJ
called traitor, the leader Of so-callcd los
cause.
1--WE, ~ Conicdculics, can echo from
our hearts the patriotic cry IT Webster
then great, Thanks be- a. God that I. too
am an American citizen hut II the ~
called new south bc base surrender ui
the old, inlHr confession, mcanly FALSE,
II shame in our pat, shame In our slrs,
shame In our dead, which none but the
illicst fool can honestly feel, then, Will
all NJ the power given a. No by the God O
truth, W. cry AVaunt, false south
ayaunt, rUttcn trunk upon a cursed root
thy fruit must turn a. ashes.